Safe seats and marginal seats
- Created by: rosiekennedy
- Created on: 04-12-18 11:53
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- Safe/marginal seats and their effects on the constituency
- Marginal seats
- A constituency where the results of past elections suggest that the result of an election will be close (winner of previous election won by less than 10% of their nearest rival)
- Effects
- Parties concentrate their efforts on marginal seats
- Voters in marginal seats are more valuable than in safe seats as they can influence the result
- Character and policies of candidates become more important
- Marginal seats can result in tactical voting
- Safe seats
- A constituency where it is highly unlikely that the seat will change hands from party to another at an election
- Effects
- Voters receive less information as parties pay little attention to safe seats in election campaigns
- MPs sitting for safe constituencies are less accountable for their actions as there's not much chance they'll lose their seat in the next election
- Voters in safe seats can feed their votes are wasted
- Votes in safe seats are effectively worth less than in marginal seats
- Marginal seats
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